Thank you all for the Tip ! It work´s fine now !! :)
Gus ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 10:32 AM Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] order by problem > On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > You have your ctrlnumber field defined as varchar. If you define > ctrlnumber as number, you could also use > > SELECT max(ctrlnumber) FROM table WHERE id=14; > > Cheers > Urosh > > > Hello All, > > > > I´m having a 'problem' that I dont know how to resolve. The problem is: > > > > I have a table that I want to get the last number to increment. To do this I > > want to sort the filed 'ctrlnumber'. Using this query´s I get: > > mysql> SELECT ctrlnumber FROM table WHERE id=14; > > +------------+ > > | ctrlnumber | > > +------------+ > > | 7 | > > | 1 | > > | 2 | > > | 3 | > > | 4 | > > | 5 | > > | 6 | > > | 8 | > > | 9 | > > | 10 | > > | 11 | > > +------------+ > > 11 rows in set (0.00 sec) > > > > mysql> SELECT ctrlnumber FROM table WHERE id=14 order by ctrlnumber; > > +------------+ > > | ctrlnumber | > > +------------+ > > | 1 | > > | 10 | > > | 11 | > > | 2 | > > | 3 | > > | 4 | > > | 5 | > > | 6 | > > | 7 | > > | 8 | > > | 9 | > > +------------+ > > 11 rows in set (0.01 sec) > > > > > > When I try to sort, it doesn´t return to me in the order that I need (1 2 3 > > 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11). Is there a way to do this or I´ll have to include 01 02 > > 03 04 05.... to all my recoreds ? > > > > Thank´s in advance, > > Gus > > > > > > > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
